top | item 30763107 (no title) text_exch | 4 years ago There was an HN poster a few months ago who claimed that memorizing the Python standard library made him much more productive. discuss order hn newest devnonymous|4 years ago Well, to be fair, they do recommend that you "keep this under your pillow" [1][1] https://docs.python.org/3/ rolisz|4 years ago I'm one of those people. I haven't memorized all of the Python standard library, but whenever I run into things that I need to do on a monthly frequency (which is not enough to remember things just by using them), I add them to my Anki deck. IshKebab|4 years ago Probably because it's so hard to find stuff in the docs! bitwize|4 years ago But... but... I thought best practice was to use autocomplete or Copilot and let the IDE remember things for me!
devnonymous|4 years ago Well, to be fair, they do recommend that you "keep this under your pillow" [1][1] https://docs.python.org/3/
rolisz|4 years ago I'm one of those people. I haven't memorized all of the Python standard library, but whenever I run into things that I need to do on a monthly frequency (which is not enough to remember things just by using them), I add them to my Anki deck.
bitwize|4 years ago But... but... I thought best practice was to use autocomplete or Copilot and let the IDE remember things for me!
devnonymous|4 years ago
[1] https://docs.python.org/3/
rolisz|4 years ago
IshKebab|4 years ago
bitwize|4 years ago